Mirella Freni

Umberto Giordano wrote 18 operas in all, but only two of them are produced with any regularity: “Fedora” and “Andrea Chenier.” On this week’s Sunday Opera (6/22 3:00 p.m.), we’ll be looking at two of his other operas that, although not unknown, aren’t produced nearly as often, and this came about after a conversation with one of our long-time listeners in Bethlehem, PA. Those operas are “La cena delle beffe” (“The Jester’s Supper”) and “Madame Sans-Gene. (“Madame Carefree”).

This week's Sunday Opera looks at Pietro Mascagni's second opera, the delightfully happy "L'amico Fritz" and a much later work, the tragic "Lodoletta."

You're invited to a birthday party on this week's Sunday Opera (1/27 3:00 p.m.) as we celebrate number 263 for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As part of the…

Vincenzo Bellini’s last opera, “I Puritani,” is on offer as this week’s Sunday Opera (2/25 3:00 p.m.). It proved to be one of Bellini’s best received…

The music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is being featured on this week’s Sunday Opera (2/18 3:00 p.m.) through two of his well-known and much loved pieces.…